[vdr] Re: [ANNOUNCE] vdr-wapd-0.0.1 pre-release

[Thomas Heiligenmann <thomas@heiligenmann.de>]

On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Jan Ekholm wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Jan Ekholm wrote:
>
> >Ok. It's actually quite simple, but I can't really test it, my phone
> >refuses stubbornly to work with anything that uses security. It just
> >whines that "Secure connection not available" and stops loading the page.
> >It should be just a matter of sending an initial header to the client and
> >request Authorization info and then verify that info in the new request.
>

It's cheaper to test with a local browser ;-)
WML is supported eg. by Opera directly. Or you just google for "wml
browser". Klondike (http://www.apachesoftware.com) runs fine under wine.

> Uh, my mistake. The phone just wanted a more complete header. Now it asks
> for a username and password as a response to the challenge by the plugin.
> What is a bigger problem is to encode the username and password (maybe as
> given in the Setup menu?) into base64. They should be combined like this:
>
> 	username:password
>
> into one single string and then encoded. That's what the phone will send
> as a response. Anyone have any links to a simple base64 implementation?
> I've looked for one in the past, and I haven't found one. Writing one
> isn't really that interesting. :)
>

mini_httpd available at http://www.acme.com has authorization implemented.
I've already taken some other ideas from this code...

T.